Walter Walker

Walter Walker (3 April 1883-8 October 1956) was a US Senator from Colorado (D) from 26 September to 6 December 1932, succeeding Charles W. Waterman and preceding Karl C. Schuyler.

Biography
Walter Walker was born in Marion, Kentucky in 1883, and he moved to Colorado in 1903. He settled in Grand Junction and worked in the newspaper business, eventually becoming chief owner of the Daily Sentinel. During the 1920s, he became an early member of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, seeking to ultimately become Exalted Cyclops. In the fall of 1924, the Klan chose D.B. Wright as Exalted Cyclops, and a disaffected Walker came to oppose the Klan, using his newspaper to thwart their efforts. From 1930 to 1932, he chaired the Democratic Party's state committee in Colorado, and he went on to fill a vacant seat in the US Senate from September to December 1932, losing election for a full term to Republican Karl C. Schuyler. In 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and he died in 1956.